Wandering the Rose Bowl flea market, Gargagliano found six chairs constructed from wood stumps. He commissioned a carpenter friend to make a matching table with a Korean barbecue stuck in the middle. "Since we're in Koreatown, I can just run down to the local supermarket and pick up a platter of spicy marinated meat ready to grill," Gargagliano says. A kitchen garden by the Korean barbecue is fragrant with sage, mint, rosemary and cilantro.

Wandering the Rose Bowl flea market, Gargagliano found six chairs constructed from wood stumps. He commissioned a carpenter friend to make a matching table with a Korean barbecue stuck in the middle. "Since we're in Koreatown, I can just run down to the local supermarket and pick up a platter of spicy marinated meat ready to grill," Gargagliano says. A kitchen garden by the Korean barbecue is fragrant with sage, mint, rosemary and cilantro. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Wandering the Rose Bowl flea market, Gargagliano found six chairs constructed from wood stumps. He commissioned a carpenter friend to make a matching table with a Korean barbecue stuck in the middle. "Since we're in Koreatown, I can just run down to the local supermarket and pick up a platter of spicy marinated meat ready to grill," Gargagliano says. A kitchen garden by the Korean barbecue is fragrant with sage, mint, rosemary and cilantro.Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times